Dispersed Democratic Leadership

Origins, Dynamics, and Implications

Edited by John Kane, Haig Patapan, and Paul 't Hart

Investigates a widely overlooked aspect of democratic government

Dispersed Democratic Leadership

Origins, Dynamics, and Implications

Edited by John Kane, Haig Patapan, and Paul 't Hart

Description

Dispersed Democratic Leadership examines both the scope and consequences of the dispersal of the leadership role in democratic societies, a topic that has been relatively neglected by a political science literature dominated by studies of executive power. Individual chapters investigate the many loci of leadership found in modern democracies, some ancient and some newly emergent, some institutionalized and some ad-hoc, some self-consciously political and some avowedly a-political. In assessing the effects of leadership dispersal, the book argues that understanding how policies are shaped in a democracy requires balancing the usual person-centered approach with one that is more contextual, institutional, and relational. The public leadership role of people in business, the media, non-governmental organizations, bureaucracy, law, show-business and many other areas are instructively investigated to enhance our appreciation of the complexity of democratic political systems and to allow us to assess the effects, both good and ill, of democratic leadership dispersal.

Dispersed Democratic Leadership

Origins, Dynamics, and Implications

Edited by John Kane, Haig Patapan, and Paul 't Hart

Table of Contents

1. Dispersed Democratic Leadership, John Kane, Haig Patapan, and Paul 't Hart2. Evolving Executive Authority in Anglo-American Democracy: Coping with Leadership Dispersal, Erwin C. Hargrove3. Incomplete Empowerment: Female Cabinet Ministers in Anglo-American Systems, Patricia Lee Sykes4. Parliamentary Oppositional Leadership, John Uhr5. Populist Leadership, Jos de Beus6. Monarchy, Political Leadership, and Democracy: On the Importance of Neutral Institutions, Douwe Jan Elzinga7. The Democratic Legitimacy of Bureaucratic Leadership, John Kane and Haig Patapan8. Judicial Leadership, Mark Tushnet9. Leadership in News Institutions, Michael Schudson10. The Challenges of Business Leadership: CEOs and the Case of the Business Council of Australia, Stephen Bell11. The Contingencies of Non-Profit Leadership, Hillel Schmid12. Leadership of the Modern University, Glyn Davis and Geoff Sharrock13. Leadership of International Organizations, Bertjan Verbeek14. Leadership by the Famous: Celebrity as Political Capital, Paul 't Hart and Karen Tindall15. Life after Political Death: The Fate of Leaders after Leaving High Office, John Keane16. Dispersed Democratic Leadership Revisited, John Kane, Haig Patapan, and Paul 't Hart

Dispersed Democratic Leadership

Origins, Dynamics, and Implications

Edited by John Kane, Haig Patapan, and Paul 't Hart

Author Information

John Kane is Professor of Politics and Public Policy and Deputy Director of the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University in Australia. His research interests include political theory, political leadership, foreign policy and public management. He is the author of numerous articles in books and international journals, co-editor of Rethinking Australian Citizenship and Dissident Democrats, and author of The Politics of Moral Capital and Between Virtue and Power.

Haig Patapan is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at Griffith University in Australia. His research interests include political theory, political leadership and democratic governance. He is the author of Judging Democracy and Machiavelli in Love, and coeditor of Globalization and Equality,Westminster Legacies , and most recently, Dissident Democrats.

Paul 't Hart is Professor of Political Science at Australian National University and Professor of Public Administration at Utrecht University. His research interests include public leadership, political psychology, crisis management, and policy analysis. He has (co)authored or (co)edited 25 books, including Groupthink in Government, Beyond Groupthink, Success and Failure in Public Governance, The Politics of Crisis Management, and Governing After Crisis.

Contributors:

Professor Stephen Bell, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, AustraliaProfessor Jos de Beus, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsProfessor Glyn Davis, Vice Chancellor, University of Melbourne, AustraliaProfessor Douwe Jan Elzinga, Department of Constitutional Law and International Law, University of Groningen, the NetherlandsProfessor Erwin Hargrove, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University, USAProfessor John Kane, Department of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University, AustraliaProfessor John Keane, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, UKProfessor Haig Patapan, Department of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University, AustraliaProfessor Hillel Schmid, Centre for the Study of Philanthropy, Hebrew University, IsraelProfessor Michael Schudson, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego, USADr. Geoff Sharrock, G. K. Sharrock Consulting Pty Ltd, Melbourne, AustraliaAssociate Professor Patricia Lee Sykes, School of Public Affairs, American University, USA Professor Paul 't Hart, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, and Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University, the NetherlandsKaren Tindall, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National UniversityProfessor Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School, Harvard University, USAProfessor John Uhr, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National UniversityProfessor Bertjan Verbeek, School of Management Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands